But I was listening to his show earlier and he was talking about Cooke. Man he does not like him. He said that he heard straight from the Penguins players that they were tired of cleaning up Cooke's mess. Madden told this to the Boston media, it got back to Cooke, and now Cooke is mad at Madden......

This is the stuff they were worrying about during the Boston series?? Makes you wonder.

Idoit40fans wrote:Madden is knowledgeable about hockey. He's just more knowledgeable about getting ratings and that also happens to be his priority.

Your first statement is questionable at best. He's a regurgitator, that is all. Anything he talks about hockey-wise is stolen from someone else. Drumming up drama and pumping up ratings is definitely his specialty. He'd be a good hype man at a strip club, which I'm sure he has applied for before.

.......I felt for Schultz when he was here, it was comical. He'd hit the ice and seemingly skate close by one of the opposition and get whistled for 2, after a while it did border on the absurd, but his rep was already made and that's what you had to deal with if he was on your team.

The biggest problem with Madden is that he speaks as fan boy too much. He thinks there is a divide amongst fans regarding Sid and Gino and does his best to try and exacerbate this supposed divide. He'll blast any player who doesn't come on his show but if a player does Madden's show, that player can do no wrong. It's kind of disturbing that he refers to Pens players as his "friends." He shouldn't be jock-sniffing. It's creepy and it also interferes with what little objectivity he has.

Idoit40fans wrote:Madden is knowledgeable about hockey. He's just more knowledgeable about getting ratings and that also happens to be his priority.

Your first statement is questionable at best. He's a regurgitator, that is all. Anything he talks about hockey-wise is stolen from someone else. Drumming up drama and pumping up ratings is definitely his specialty. He'd be a good hype man at a strip club, which I'm sure he has applied for before.

We are all regurgitating what we have learned about hockey. Do you claim to have original thoughts about a game played for that length of time?

Cooke is a sad story. Before all the suspensions, he was our pest. He was the guy that rubbed everyone the wrong way. He can't or doesn't even try to anymore because he just ends up in the box automatically. It's a shame because he's got a lot of other pluses, but at this point I wonder whether someone else could fit in his role.

Idoit40fans wrote:Madden is knowledgeable about hockey. He's just more knowledgeable about getting ratings and that also happens to be his priority.

Your first statement is questionable at best. He's a regurgitator, that is all. Anything he talks about hockey-wise is stolen from someone else. Drumming up drama and pumping up ratings is definitely his specialty. He'd be a good hype man at a strip club, which I'm sure he has applied for before.

We are all regurgitating what we have learned about hockey. Do you claim to have original thoughts about a game played for that length of time?

What are you talking about? I'm not claiming to have uncovered some new and exciting hockey information. I'm saying Madden either makes things up or takes other's professional journalism ideas and pawns them off as his own.

Idoit40fans wrote:Madden is knowledgeable about hockey. He's just more knowledgeable about getting ratings and that also happens to be his priority.

Your first statement is questionable at best. He's a regurgitator, that is all. Anything he talks about hockey-wise is stolen from someone else. Drumming up drama and pumping up ratings is definitely his specialty. He'd be a good hype man at a strip club, which I'm sure he has applied for before.

We are all regurgitating what we have learned about hockey. Do you claim to have original thoughts about a game played for that length of time?

What are you talking about? I'm not claiming to have uncovered some new and exciting hockey information. I'm saying Madden either makes things up or takes other's professional journalism ideas and pawns them off as his own.

oh. Your point is so unthinkable..... I thought you meant he was regurgitating what he learned from players or coaches about the game itself.

(Excluding former NHL players) There isn't one writer, television personality or radio guy in this city who knows more about hockey than Madden. Not one.